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Today's Fresh Blogs...| The Experiment Begins |
| Published: February 28, 2007, 6:41 am |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| With a gestation period shorter than an elephant's, that first metro column has finally seen light of day. Wound up chucking the prepared ones, and jumping on the news, Endless Summer style. Bill Burd had said on the phone that... |
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| FBI violated Constitution in Jefferson Raid |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 1:46 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| The FBI broke the law when it searched Rep. William Jefferson's Rayburn office in May 2006 and viewed legislative documents, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today. The court ordered the Justice Department to return any legislative materials taken... |
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| USA: Discrimination, Profiling Against Muslim Prisoners at Federal Facility |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 10:37 am |
| Tags: Muslims, Crime Punishment, United States |
| prisoners convicted for crimes the Justice Department intimates are terror-related being held in a segregated unit where their communications are more severely restricted than high-profile inmates such as al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui and Unabomber Theodore J. Kaczynski. The facility is known as the Communications Management Unit |
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| Deputy U.S. Marshal Indicted for Allegedly Abusing Prisoner |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 5:44 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| A federal grand jury indicted a deputy with the U.S. Marshals Service in Washington today for allegedly using excessive force against a bound man and then attempting to cover up his actions, authorities said. Stephen Cook was indicted on seven... |
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| Libya: Gadhafi’s Son Admits Foreign Medics Were Tortured, but Claims Palestinian Doctor Exaggerated |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 10:46 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment, Libya |
| Perhaps when electric shocks were being applied to his genitalia, the doctor’s perception became a bit fuzzy, eh? Gadhafi’s son: Bulgarian medics tortured (Associated Press) The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has acknowledged that the Bulgarian medical workers who were jailed on charges of infecting children with HIV were |
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| ABA commission pulls proposal on criminal records |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 1:54 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| Out in San Francisco at the American Bar Association annual meeting, we've just heard word that a controversial proposal that urged sealing records of certain past criminal convictions and arrests has been pulled from the agenda of the association's House... |
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| The Wired |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 12:02 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| While it takes brass to raid a congressman's cave -- as when the FBI set upon Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson's office in May 2006 -- that's nothing compared to the derring-do of former Rep. bob Ney's chief of staff, the... |
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| Bad Boys |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 4:56 am |
| Tags: George Michael, Crime, Punishment |
| George Michael has made a start on his community service, doing gardening at a homeless shelter in London:"I'm just like everyone else. If you do something stupid, you have to pay the price. I've been doing some gardening and really enjoyed it."I'll do whatever they want me to do. I don't want any special treatment." Putting George to work in the |
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| India: Taslima Nasreen to Face Charges in India for Inciting Religious Enmity |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 10:59 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment, Arts, India |
| India to charge writer Nasreen with ‘hurting Muslim feelings’ (CBC) Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen will face criminal charges in India after being accused of stirring up religious enmity. The charges come after Nasreen was attacked at a publication party because of opposition to a translation of her latest book, Shodh, in Hyderabad |
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| Muslim in America: Now We Are All Co-Conspirators? |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 3:08 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment, United States |
| Muslim Groups Oppose a List of Co-Conspirators' Neil MacFarquhar (NY Times) Two prominent Muslim American organizations took steps yesterday to reverse what they called a Justice Department effort to smear the entire Muslim community by naming some of its largest organizations as unindicted co-conspirators in a Texas terrorism trial. The |
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| Staten Island: Violent Death Comes to An Innocent Child; She Never Had a Chance |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 4:46 pm |
| Tags: Domestic Abuse, Crime Punishment, United States, Children |
| I had meant to post this several days ago, but never got around to it. Since I’m not sure how long the article will be available in the NY Times before it gets pay-walled, here is a brief synopsis of this story out of Staten Island: Hailey Gonzalez was was only two months old when her father, one Manuel Gonzalez, hit her in the head so hard |
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| U.S. Diplomat: The only good Arab is a dead Arab |
| Published: August 18, 2007, 11:20 am |
| Tags: Crime Punishment, United States |
| Well, actually the title should read “Former US Diplomat”. Mr. Patrick Syring has “retired” from the diplomatic corps after suggesting via voice mails and e-mails that Arabs should perform perform various sexual acts upon themselves and then die. Some careers just are not right for certain people. I suppose this will |
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| Airlines to Pay Up for Misdeeds, Price Fixing |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 2:35 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| Judge John Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has signed off on $300 million fines against British Airways and Korean Air each on antitrust conspiracy charges related to price-fixing and collusion. On Thursday, the companies... |
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| "Jena 6" |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 6:08 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| Today, school officials at Jena High School banned students from wearing a T-shirt that reads, Free the Jena 6. Jena 6 is the term coined to describe the six black high-school students in Jena, La., who were charged last December... |
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| Volz Was the Better Snitch |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 2:56 pm |
| Tags: Crime Punishment |
| As cooperative defendants go, Will Heaton was good. But Neil Volz outshone him, prosecutors say. Volz, who was former Ohio Rep. Bob Ney's chief of staff before Heaton and who later joined Jack Abramoff's lobbying team in 2002, is scheduled... |
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